While wearing a red, blue, or gold wedding dress this year will align your look with the season's most forward-thinking designs, opting instead for a blush gown (in shades like peachy-pink and strawberries-and-cream) will keep your colorful wedding dress feeling ultra-modern without sacrificing on traditional bridal style, too. Designers from Vera Wang to Carolina Herrera to Monique Lhuillier have long used pink as a soft accent color on sashes and embroideries, but with a punched-up palette this season, head-to-toe blush gowns are the new normal. We, for one, couldn't be more tickled—pink.

Pink Wedding Dress: Jim Hjelm Blush

The increasing popularity of floral motifs taken from cherry blossoms and dogwood flowers might—at least in part—be responsible for the craze over pink wedding dresses. At left, Carolina Herrera's drop-waisted ball gown and chapel-length veil both feature embroidery styled after the cascading branches of a dogwood tree.